I choked on my halo, fell to Earth, and met some sailors. Here's what happened next.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Skeezy Like Sunday Morning

My Sundays are pretty much all the same. My head is pounding, I have grass stains in surprising places, and there's an array of dead sailors on the balcony. So I like to take it easy: read the paper in bed, drink gallons of coffee, and putter around on the Internet.

Isn't the ;-) the sarcasm emoticon? I mean, I admit I occasionally throw in a smiley face in emails, but it's always to ensure that irony or sarcasm is understood. Blood has been spilled because of misundersood emails. Email has no tone unlike the spoken word... sarcasm translates the worst.

I will also occasionally use LOL or OMG, but only in a context of making fun of people who text message just as much as I do can but can do it faster by using terms like LOL and OMG instead of typing it out. If there's one thing you can say about us old-timers, we resist efficiency for the sake of style like nobody's business.

I cannot figure out why, around 4:00, my comment threads always turn into closing time at the bar, with the remaining 2-3 unrepentant drunks, bickering over whose turn it is to pay the cab fare and whether solipsism is a valid philosophical choice.

Wait 1 second here. So, what you are saying is, if he had just asked - you might have considered stripping? As far as I can tell, you shot him down BEFORE he emoticoned you. Though, to your point, if you said yes, and his response was ":)" then, I definitely agree with you.

That said, I'm an advocate for ";)" - for the reason that Jamie says above - its hard to tell sarcasm over email. (and because I know you're wondering -no, I'm not justifying my use of ";)" so I can strip for you)

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